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4 Dec, 6 tweets, 3 min read
He comes to the EXACT OPPOSITE of the rational conclusion!

If the SAME disparate circumstances of marginalized peoples that existed under Jim Crow persist, now by means of facially "race-neutral" standards, then the burden of proof is on those who would justify these standards!
2/ I literally just wrote about this today:

3/ And, contrary to Owen, you don't have to become an expert to see this. Start by reading some who are! Again, for example:
4/4 Last, becoming familiar with the actual civil rights and abolitionist discourse will make this all easier to understand:

alsoacarpenter.com/2020/06/22/the…
5/4 And there's the racist's standard move: blame the victim.

6/4 For @ostrachan, see Group 1 below. It's like I was describing this article in advance, hahaha.

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Bradly Mason Profile picture
4 Dec
Folks ask me all the time, “But couldn’t it be past racism that is responsible for current disparities rather than systemic racism?” This, I’d argue, shows that the meaning of “systemic racism” is being missed altogether.

Sorry, another long thread:
2/ I’d argue that “systemic racism” could be defined as any historic and/or current system of ideas, social philosophies, institutions, policies, and practices which have created and/or continue to perpetuate the SUBORDINATED CIRCUMSTANCES and INFERIOR CONDITIONS of historically
3/ contingent, socially constructed, racialized people-groups. (I think Vernellia R. Randal’s is pretty good as well, viz., “polices, practices, and procedures of institutions that have a disproportionately negative effect on racial minorities’ access to and quality of goods,
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3 Dec
This tweet, my friend, is complete and ignorant nonsense.

Clearly there are a couple ways developing to position oneself in this debate.

You can (1) say CRT is incompatible with Christianity, (2) say it is compatible, or (3) play this game that I’m losing patience for—the
2/ “CRT teaches x, y, z, so it is actually incompatible; but we don’t’ need CRT to oppose racism anyhow, and the bad folks are illegitimately calling everything CRT in order to avoid dealing with racism.”
3/ While I get the draw to this latter position, so long as it is based on plain slander of CRT scholars—incessantly claiming that they teach what they do not and deeply distorting the arguments based on pure ignorance and/or malice—then it is just as unchristian and
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2 Dec
In my opinion, I think it is important to recognize that there are a few different groups (I’ll suggest 4) of people at odds in this whole Critical Race Theory (CRT) debate in the Church.

This is a long thread, I apologize, but I truly think we need to make these distinctions:
2/ The 1st group are just your run of the mill racists. You know the crowd. They are loud and all over the internet.
3/ They believe that slavery and Jim Crow are ancient history, the racists were the KKK types who are now hard to find, the sexual revolution and Great Society—even the CRM itself—destroyed the Black family and led to degenerate behaviors that explain the VAST racial disparity
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1 Dec
For those unclear about the point:

Given that social, legal, and economic systems do not just sprout from the ground naturally like plants, but are human created historical and contingent artifacts, then we must necessarily offer moral justifications for the way things are. 1/
2/ Now, given that our own system has produced/allowed for/maintained VAST and ever increasing inequalities—some with hundreds of billions and MANY MANY more completely broke—we either need to show the moral justification for our chosen system or change it.
3/ A very common justification (NOT THE ONLY POSSIBLE) is that our system simply rewards the smartest and hardest working individuals, therefore huge disparities in income and wealth are fully justified as they reflect individual merit.
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30 Nov
Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton in 1967:

"Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the total white community against the black community. 1/
2/ "We call these individual racism and institutional racism. The first consists of overt acts by individuals, which cause death, injury or the violent destruction of property. This type can be recorded by television cameras; it can frequently be observed in the process of
3/ "commission. The second type is less overt, far more subtle, less identifiable in terms of specific individuals committing the acts. But it is no less destructive of human life. The second type originates in the operation of established and respected forces in the society,
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28 Nov
Was rereading a section of Kendi's How to be an Antiracist and was reminded of this section on personal responsibility:

"Indeed, I was irresponsible in high school. It makes antiracist sense to talk about the personal irresponsibility of individuals like me of all races. 1/
2/ "I screwed up. I could have studied harder. But some of my White friends could have studied harder, too, and their failures and irresponsibility didn’t somehow tarnish their race.
3/ "… How do we think about my young self, the C or D student, in antiracist terms? The truth is that I should be critiqued as a student—I was undermotivated and distracted and undisciplined. In other words, a bad student. But I shouldn’t be critiqued as a bad Black student.
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